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This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them.

I needed a diagram.

Diagram showing how former White House crypto council officials Bo Hines and Harry Jung connect to the consulting firm NXUM, Tether and Tether US, the Fellowship PAC, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, including payments of $6.3M+ from Tether and $6.5M+ from the PAC to NXUM, and a loan from Tether to Lutnick.
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“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”

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“OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects”
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“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.”

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“OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic”
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saw a great tip about using a dog training clicker to mark where you mess up a take in an audio recording, because it generates a nice clean pattern in the waveform that makes it easy to spot

works great, but my dog is going nuts

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